Chapter 27

Richard was happy with Rosalina's progress. He truly recognized the positive change one went through. Looking at his enemies, Richard started planning his moves and the move set of the enemies. He had received the knowledge of what the blessing contained and understood its benefits. Athena had really granted him a boon beyond his requirements. He had expected some great wind to blow away his enemies, but she gave such a powerful blessing that have lasting benefits. He would be moron to sit on his ass. He thanked the enemies for coming or he would have missed out. He also thanked Duke in his mind for bring them.

Getting back, Richard had only tested few moves and hadn't mastered them. He could use a fireball.

He could breathe in water.

He could make his steps silent.

He could boost his body and weapons.

He could make his body flexible using the snake body skill.

He could attack using a roar.

That was it, but he knew about many other skills.

Wind needles

Water needles

Earth Spikes

Earth shaker

Ground collapse

Energy slash

Compressed energy shot

Earth Hand

Ki barrier

All these were skills he had read about, but he knew about many other skills from the various stories he had read.

Normally, he wouldn't act so irresponsibly and play around at this level. However, now was the best moment to play around with his imagination as he had unlimited energy and complete protection along with a skill boost. Richard was truly excited for the first time since he had arrived in the new world.

Walking towards his enemies, Richard boosted his physique. He didn't stop at the normal range and went beyond. The Ki covered his skin, his skeletal structure, his organs and his nervous system. It was his first time, but he could do it without too much difficulty. He felt some bumps that could have signified horrific injuries; however he didn't experience any injury and succeeded. Richard went further and boosted his brain along with his heart. These two organs were the most dangerous parts and also the most important. Richard didn't have knowledge to actually succeed at such a level, but at this moment everything seemed possible. Richard didn't do anything unconsciously, as he was completely focused on his body and barely cared about the enemies. He couldn't allow the mastery to vanish after the battle. It was the reason that Athena gave such a blessing. She was the one with wisdom and she gave such blessings. Unfortunately, many people missed the point and wasted the moment.

Even at the current moment, it was only Charles and Richard that of utilizing the opportunity. With the boost to the mind using normal enhancement method, it was minimal compared to the real enhancement method for such a delicate body part but it was a blessing to Richard. The brain controlled everything inside the body. It increased his reaction speed, his perception, his thinking ability and speed, his memory, his Ki movement, his Ki control, his body control and his movement speed as the signals of his mind were faster.

The boost from the heart also gave him an increase to his speed, his physique, his stamina and his endurance. The boost to the brain allowed him to remember every step to the minute level and even allowed him to operate faster. He could think multiple things while the world seemed to have slowed down. Richard went further with his enhancement, not just surface level. He focused on the blood. It was high level enhancement that only a few percentages of the population could master.

While Richard was boosting his physique, the raptors were observing the new prey. The creatures were intelligent and quick on the response. It was easy to understand that the enemies were extremely weak, but they were protected by something. Mars wanted to capture Duke but wanted to escape once so he the human duo. He thought about it and decided to handle it quickly. He would drag away Duke without getting into a fight. He commanded the raptors to ignore the others and capture Duke with their abilities. The raptors started moving while Richard was immobile.

Duke didn't know what Richard was doing and just reacted to the enemies. Glaring at them and getting ready to win, as he was aware that he was protected and had been boosted considerably. Rose trusted Richard and just focused on her things. She boosted her strength using the Inferno Bull enhancement, which was a stronger boost than the normal skill. She followed it up with Berserker and boosted her level beyond what she had done before. Normally, she avoided the berserker ability since it had a painful aftereffect, but now she could improve her skills. She increased the level of both skills and focused on the enemies.

Fire slash

She slashed the empty air and targeted the large Raptor, Jason. The attack that would normally come out the size of a small child had become adult size. Its speed and intensity had increased to a level that Noah would have been knocked out from the impact. Such an attack made the enemies reevaluate them. Jason easily dodged the attack as the group surrounded the heroes while moving constantly. They also avoided Duke's earth bullets. The scene made Mars gulp as he forced Jason to hurry. Jason initiated the group attack, dark energy charged on their jaws before getting shot towards Rose. The dark bullets were fast and Rose managed to dodge few and hit some while the rest hit her joints. The energy was sticky and alive as it drained her Ki and made her immobile. It made her limbs stick to the ground while moving to convert the whole body. It didn't try to attack Rose, just immobilize her since they didn't want to have it cancelled.

Following that move, they moved towards Duke with agile steps. They shot at him with the same attacks while dark tendrils spread from their feet. Duke was heavier in stats and reacted fast. He was a powerful beast with immense potential and pride. Taking his stand, Duke roared with darkness to counter the attacks. He caused the land to shake and collapse around him. He couldn't move through their shadows as the raptors could negate the ability and we're hunters of shadows. The affect was instant as the ground around him collapsed leaving a deep crater. The earth moved towards the enemies while Duke dived towards Richard's shadow. It would have worked but, Jason was extremely attentive and agile. He avoided everything expertly and lashed out at the shadow, hitting Duke with his tail that had lengthened in size and sent him crashing into the ground while the other raptors moved to trap him.

Fortunately, Duke was saved by a flame slash from Rose.

Richard had stopped researching while a battle was going on. He had gone even deeper than blood level, to cellular level and to the atomic level. It was only possible in the unkillable state with unlimited energy and mastery boost. Richard's level of physique and energy speed increased with the enhancement on the blood level, making his approach to cellular level even faster. The cellular enhancement had an enormous boost and allowed easier advancement towards atomic level. It was made immensely easier by the fact that he only had to succeed once and it was replicated all over the body.

That was not the only thing as Richard had also boosted his Ki movement and control. The Ki gathered around his navel was spinning at rapid speed while being distributed to four directions, two streams to the top part of the body and two streams to the bottom part of the body.

The rapid speed and direct transmission to the limbs made everything faster and easier while the normal travel path of Ki would delay most moves by seconds that were necessary.

Richard opened his eyes to see everything in slow motion and walked to Rose to free her from the darkness. His walk was almost instant and he seemed to teleport in Mars vision. Richard utilized flame touch to eliminate the darkness. Focusing on the atomic scale, Richard boosted the ability to a new realm that it burned the tar like substance with utter ease.

Richard thought of making Rose focus like him, but that was improbable at the moment. It would take time to convey the message and she didn't have his knowledge. It was unfortunate that he hadn't taught her to such a level. Regardless, he still had her focus on improving current skills and trying theoretical skills that she was aware of.

"Rose, focus and use all your skills. Push them to the highest capacity as we can do the impossible at this moment." Richard took her hand and pulled her up.

Rose understood as she had felt her skills increase to the max.

"Use fire slash!" Richard pointed her body towards Duke and gave her the command. Rose didn't question and unleashed the skill while Richard's hand was on her back. He felt the movement and understood the skill. The boosted skill saved Duke from the attack and Richard followed it up with his moves. Wind needles, fire balls, earth spikes, water needles were shot at the enemies, targeting their non vital points.

The raptors were rendered immobile with hear bullets tearing holes in their bodies. Following that, Richard utilized his earth hand and captured the raptors. He turned towards the direction that the raptors had come from and utilized the flame slash while also changing his normal enhancement to Inferno Bull enhancement. This further increased his powers while giving his flame element a boost.

Mars was unable to react to the attack and only luckily survived. The attack missed Mars since Richard couldn't really sense him and didn't know his position. Mars lost his hand from the passing attack. He wasn't on guard and the move was too strong compared to Richard's level. He screamed from the sudden pain and Richard sent another barrage of elemental bullets while collapsing the ground within 20 meters. Richard didn't just copy the enhancement from Rose as he observed the Berserker ability. It was on the cellular level and he copied it following the data observed.

With the beasts immobilized, Duke and Rose walked towards Mars with Richard. Mars had managed to avoid the attack by utilizing vines to pull him away from the area. He left poisonous plants in his place and a vine trap. The bullets killed the plants but spread the poison. Richard used the wind needle but increased its size to car size. It pushed away the dust and poison while continuing forward, destroying trees on its way. They couldn't find anything as Mars hid very well using his dark wood style abilities.

Richard got back to the raptors and approached Jason.

"Continue using your abilities before time runs out." Richard reminded Rose and Duke before focusing on his objective. He knew that someone was controlling the beast. So, he wanted to see if he could learn anything from it or he would just check for the raptor's abilities. Richard put his hand on Jason while the beast weakly resisted. The earth hand held it right while the bullets had left it weak. Richard loved dinosaurs especially raptors and other carnivores. He wanted to see if he could take it. Using his Ki, Richard looked into the beast without much resistance. Its level of ability wasn't his equal. Checking inside, Richard found what he was looking for on the blood level. It was a blood contract between the beast and the tamer. It was in the shape of a dark halo and energy was pulsating from it with a stable rhythm.

Richard observed the working on the blood level and went to the cellular level. He observed it for a moment and decided to work on it. Pushing his energy inside, Richard overwrote the name and presence of Mars on the dark Halo. Richard made the mark on a deeper level, atomic, so that none could cancel it. The bond allowed him to communicate directly with Jason with his mind and even control him. Finishing up with that, Richard took the abilities that Jason knew and replicated them to master them. He also continued to boost his body continuously to higher levels, which was made possible by the fact that he was doing it on an atomic level. His atomic structure was being enhanced, which was boosting his physique.

His body was being bathed in the silver energy and the percentage of silver was increasing at a fast rate.

On the other hand, Mars was hit by the backlash from the bond breaking and he had to stop himself from screaming in rage. His hands bled from the force of his grip and his teeth almost shattered from grinding them too hard. 'I will kill them. I will kill them. Fuck. Fuck.' Mars couldn't stop cursing Richard's group. He was absolutely livid.

Just as he was thinking that he might go crazy from the rage, H flew to his hiding place and picked him up. H flew extremely fast and even picked up the other four raptors, leaving Jason since he couldn't sense the familiar presence from it.

Richard watched the agile creature leave them in the dust. H moved at speeds reaching Mach 150. It was desperate and wanted to escape. That was a speed which was utilized for short bursts. Richard was able to easily follow it with his eyes and even out speed H, but he didn't do so because the creature was flying.

He didn't want to waste his time on an impossible chase. Such a thought was only possible because Richard possessed silver energy, which was above normal type of energy. It put Richard as a higher species.

The color of the energy showed the potential of the species and it was extremely difficult to change to the higher realm.

It went from blue to silver, to gold and finally there was the platinum color.

Other than his energy rank, Richard also boosted his body on the atomic level with energy that surpassed even Charles. So, he was reached a level of power that was beyond Charles at his current best.

Regardless, the boost was temporary since he didn't have the energy reserves to allow the enhancement normally.

Richard continued to compress his Ki inside the Navel while continuously enhancing the body. Enhancing the body on such a level should leave lasting affects and grant him power beyond his rank, according to his prediction. The daily usage of enhancement allowed the body to naturally try to improve to such a level.

Richard wanted to continue practicing with the blessed environment but it ended once the other two villages took care of their pests. It was only half an hour after H took Mars and disappeared.